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• Managing Diabetic Patients who have Renal Failure. Part 2

  Patient-Specific Considerations There are many factors that influence the clinical management of the diabetic patient with renal insufficiency. Several common patient considerations that the pharmacy practitioner should evaluate are described in this section. Hypertension: Hypertension is frequently seen in diabetic patients, especially in those with decreased renal function. In addition, the progression of renal dysfunction ...

• Management of Heart Failure in Diabetic Patients. Prevention and Treatment

  Prevention Preventing or treating subclinical heart failure should be a consideration for proper management of all diabetic patients. This consideration is independent of the patient’s risk for other complications (nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy, etc.). Once patients become symptomatic, treatment should become aggressive. Several factors must be considered in developing therapeutic plans for these patients (both subclinical ...

• Beta-blockers, hypertension increase diabetes risk

  A new study suggests that people with high blood pressure may be 2.5 times as likely to develop type 2 diabetes, compared to people with normal blood pressure. And the risk may be greater in people taking beta blockers to treat their condition. Previous studies have suggested that thiazide diuretics and beta-blockers, both antihypertension medications, ...

• Blood pressure control

  Good blood pressure control is more important than good glucose control in reducing cardiovascular disease although both matter. Cardiovascular disease is the commonest cause of death in diabetic patients. There is substantial evidence that reducing blood pressure greatly reduces the risk of diabetic and cardiovascular events—fatal and non-fatal. In UKPDS (38) tight blood pressure control ...

• Hypertension

  There is much debate about why people with diabetes are about two times more likely to have hypertension than non-diabetic people. Hypertension is found in one in three people with diabetes—or more. As with other tissue damage hypertension is uncommon in people with newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes but is frequent in those with Type ...